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US general warns China biggest threat in space 19 Feb 2023 - 03:38 pm
In this file photo taken on February 01, 2023 this handout photo from Chase Doak and released on February 2 shows a suspected Chinese spy balloon in the sky over Billings, Montana. Photo by Chase DOAK / CHASE DOAK / AFP
Michigan State struggles with uncertain return to classes 19 Feb 2023 - 03:38 pm
GROSSE POINTE, MI - FEBRUARY 18: Clergy lead the casket out after the funeral for Brian Fraser on February 18, 2023 at St. Paul on the Lake Catholic Church in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. Brian Fraser was one of three students killed in the shooting that occurred at Michigan State University on Monday, February 13, 2023. Nic Antaya/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Nic Antaya / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
Hong Kong airport’s passenger volume surges as China reopens 19 Feb 2023 - 01:41 pm
File photo: Passengers from China's Xiamen arrive at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport after China reopens its borders amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, in Bangkok, Thailand, January 9, 2023. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
Cardiac implants reused from the dead in Romania: prosecutors 19 Feb 2023 - 01:20 pm
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S. Korea, US and Japan hold trilateral talks on N. Korea 19 Feb 2023 - 12:34 pm
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and South Korea Foreign Minister Park Jin meet at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, southern Germany, on February 18, 2023. (Photo by Petr David Josek / POOL / AFP)
4.1-Magnitude earthquake hits Oman's Duqm region 19 Feb 2023 - 12:33 pm
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Turkiye quake survivors rescue belongings for uncertain future 19 Feb 2023 - 12:32 pm
Turkish optician Cuneyt Eroglu, 45-year-old, collects glasses and other stuff from his collapsed shop in Antakya on February 18, 2023. (Photo by Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP)
China says it plans naval exercises with Russia, South Africa 19 Feb 2023 - 12:29 pm
Protesters from Ukrainian Association of SA and civil society activists take part in a demonstration at the Umhlanga beach in Durban on February 18, 2023, against South Africa's joint military exercise with Russia and China along its eastern coast city of Richards Bay. (Photo by RAJESH JANTILAL / AFP)
Japan bids farewell to four pandas returning to China 19 Feb 2023 - 12:01 pm
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Sunak’s margin for UK tax cuts set to narrow with deficit jump 19 Feb 2023 - 11:55 am
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gives a tv interview on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, southern Germany, on February 18, 2023.
North Korea says it fired ICBM as warning to US, Seoul 19 Feb 2023 - 11:44 am
This picture taken on February 18, 2023 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on February 19, 2023 shows test-firing of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
Plane crashes in Philippines, search underway for 4 on board 19 Feb 2023 - 09:38 am
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Qatari Search, Rescue Group conclude operations in southern Turkiye 18 Feb 2023 - 11:42 pm
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Turkey: Couple saved 296 hours after quake, but children die 18 Feb 2023 - 11:27 pm
Men look on at the site of collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras, southeastern Turkey, on February 18, 2023.  (Photo by Zein Al RIFAI / AFP)
Tunisia's Saied expels Europe's top trade unionist for 'interference' 18 Feb 2023 - 11:17 pm
Protesters chant slogans during a demonstration called by the General Union of Tunisian Workers (UGTT) over worsening economic woes and the arrest of a top union official, in Tunisia's second city of Sfax, on February 18, 2023. (Photo by IMED HADDAD / AFP)
US to cull 150 'feral cattle' in protected New Mexico forest 18 Feb 2023 - 09:16 pm
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Al-Qaeda says swapped prisoners with Houthis in Yemen: report 18 Feb 2023 - 08:11 pm
A Houthi supporter looks on as he carries a weapon during a gathering in Sanaa, Yemen on April 2, 2020.
Funerals held for victims of Michigan State campus attack 18 Feb 2023 - 07:59 pm
The casket is carried during the funeral for Brian Fraser on February 18, 2023 at St. Paul on the Lake Catholic Church in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. Brian Fraser was one of three students killed in the shooting that occurred at Michigan State University on Monday, February 13, 2023. Nic Antaya/Getty Images/AFP